Roxham Road, asylum-seeker destination, busy after Biden-Trudeau pact
Roxham Road, an unofficial crossing point from New York State to Quebec for asylum seekers in Champlain
Christinne Muschi, Anna Mehler Paperny and Carlos Osorio
Sat, March 25, 2023 at 10:05 AM EDT·3 min read
By Christinne Muschi, Anna Mehler Paperny and Carlos Osorio
CHAMPLAIN, New York/TORONTO (Reuters) -Asylum seekers warned by police they could be sent back continued to walk into Canada through the unofficial United States border crossing into Quebec at Roxham Road a day after the two countries amended a 20-year-old asylum pact trying to stem the influx.
U.S. President Joe Biden and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced changes to the Safe Third Country Agreement on Friday after a record number of asylum seekers arrived in Canada via unofficial border crossings, putting pressure on Trudeau to address it.
The Safe Third Country Agreement, signed in 2002 and which came into effect in 2004, originally meant asylum seekers crossing into either Canada or the United States at formal border crossings were turned back and told to apply for asylum in the first "safe" country they arrived in.
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